Freelance like a pro

Invoicing, clients, contacts, and more

Start the new year fresh with this special offer for ShopTalk listeners. Manage clients and contacts, send branded invoices, receive payments, access educational resources, and connect with a supportive community — all for just $29/mo if you sign up before the end of the year. We’re building the best business hub for freelancers who want a custom client experience that feels polished and professional — with much more in store.

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Testimonials

After two decades (sheesh!) of freelancing and trying every business app under the sun, I finally found one that feels like it was made for me. Studioworks is intuitive, thoughtful, and supported by a genuinely inspiring creative community.

— Emily Foran, Designer
Studioworks is awesome! I never liked Quickbooks, this feels more like me. You get a built-in community of creatives where you can ask business questions, share resources, and/or find your next collaborator, plus payment processing fees that are lower than other platforms, plus a product that is beautiful and makes invoicing feel less boring, more dreamy, and legit!

— Jaime Borschuk, Photographer
I’ve been using Studioworks since the beta version and I am LOVING it! Everything is streamlined (not to mention, beautifully designed), which helps keep me organized and on top of my business. It means a lot to me that Studioworks values providing a quality, tailored product for the long-haul, not scaling-up into the oblivion of enshittification. THANK YOU, Studioworks!

— Liz Volpi, Designer

Indie Software for Indie Business

What started as a conversation between friends evolved into a bootstrapped, independent company of four design-minded builders who really care about the details. We’re designers, developers, and lifelong tinkerers who believe software should feel intentional, friendly, and grounded in real experience. Studioworks is the business hub we always wished existed.

Your membership includes:

Clients

Add Clients & Manage Contact Info
Track Important Financial Data
Save Private Notes and Details
Create & Save Blueprints for Easy Invoicing and Paperwork

Invoicing

Beautiful & Intuitive Interface
Charge by the Hour, Day, Week, Month, or Quarter
Flat Rate or Per Item Pricing
Give Discounts and Credits
Collect Taxes & Fees
Smart Reminders including a “Studio Heads-up” Before a Reminder is Sent
View/Pay Online and/or Export as PDF

Payments

No Additional Transaction Fees
Accept ACH & Credit Card Payments
Share Wire & Check Information
Track Online Payments
Track payments made on Paypal, Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, and more
Track third-party payment platforms like Bill.com
International Currency Support

Your Hub

Your Logo and Brand
Limitless Color Customization
Curated Fonts by Award-Winning Type Designers
Beautifully Designed Templates

Community

Live Co-Working
Support & Mentorship
Online & IRL Events
Tools & Resources
Courses & Education
Industry Perks & Discounts
Pricing & Business Advice
A Supportive Community of Professional Creatives

Manage Clients

Cultivate better relationships with your clients

Add clients, manage contacts, and save private notes to remember the details that matter. With invoicing and real-time financial snapshots built right in, Studioworks helps you stay on top of your client work.

Invoice & Get Paid

Create beautiful invoices and get paid every way

Create, design, and send beautiful invoices with features built exactly for how creatives do business. Mix and match line items. Collect online payments with the lowest rates possible and track payments made offline or elsewhere with our innovative Mark as Paid flow. Plus smart reminders, adaptable fees, and all sorts of other details that make getting paid a breeze.

Keep More of What You Earn

You can save hundreds or even thousands annually by invoicing with Studioworks. See how our fees compare below.

Studioworks is built with Stripe’s API, but with no additional transaction fees added — unlike competitors. This means we have the lowest possible transaction rates, especially for ACH — lower than Stripe’s own invoicing product!

Platform
ACH Fee
$60,000/year
$90,000/year
$120,000/year

Studioworks
0.8% fee $5 max per transaction
$5 or less per invoice
$5 or less per invoice
$5 or less per invoice

Quickbooks
1% (no max)
$600/year
$900/year
$1,200/year

Freshbooks
1% (no max)
$600/year
$900/year
$1,200/year

Honeybook
1.5% (no max)
$900/year
$1,200/year
$1,800/year

Bonsai
1% (no max)
$600/year
$900/year
$1,200/year

Wave
1% (no max, $1 min)
$600/year
$900/year
$1,200/year

Stripe Invoicing
0.8% / $5
+ .04% or 0.5% (no max)
$240–300/year
$360–450/year
$480–600/year

Community & More

A supportive community with events, mentorship, resources, and so much more

The Studioworks Community Hub is the nicest place on the internet and is included in your membership! Connect with peers, find and swap resources, or join us for our weekly meetups and critiques. You can also find exclusive perks and discounts to software and other things you love offered to Studioworks members.

It really simplifies invoicing and payment with the cheapest rates around, which means I get to keep more of my own money.
— Doug Wilson,
Creative Director
Studioworks is intuitive, thoughtful, and supported by a genuinely inspiring creative community.
— Emily Foran,
Designer
Studioworks is awesome! It’s beautiful and makes invoicing feel less boring, more dreamy, and legit!
— Jaime Borschuk,
Photographer
I am LOVING it! Everything is streamlined (not to mention beautifully designed), which helps keep me organized and on top of my business.
— Liz Volpi,
Designer

All in One Place—Your Place

We built Studioworks to feel like a white-label product for your business, so you can look like an absolute boss to your clients. It’ll look like you hired a big, fancy web agency to build you a custom backend for invoicing, plus a public mini site for sharing your contact info and bio.

Create your business hub and customize it with your logo, limitless color choices, and typefaces by award-winning foundries. Start looking like a pro today.

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One month free, then $29/mo

Custom Colors

Chose colors to match your studio aesthetic

Select a primary color, a text color, a highlight color, and even a page tint to create a beautiful, accessible color palette that instantly transforms the entire Studioworks web experience to match your studio’s aesthetic.

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Beautiful Type

Curated fonts by celebrated type foundries

We’ve partnered with award-winning type foundries like Ohno Type Co. and MCKL Fonts to elevate your studio brand. We care a little too much about fonts and typography because we know you might, too.

Font Family:

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Studioworks Flair by Jessica Hische

Headlines
Circular by Lineto

Small Headlines and Labels
GT Alpina by Grilli Type

Large blocks of paragraph text, like the bio on your Studio Hub landing page

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Animators
Architects
Artists
Branding Specialists
Calligraphers
Content Creators
Creative Directors
Frontend Developers
Filmmakers
Furniture Makers
Graphic Designers
Illustrators
Industrial Designers
Photographers
Sign Painters
UI/UX Designers
Web Developers
…and you

Meet the Team

We’re a small-but-mighty, values-driven team of experienced founders, designers, and developers

We bring our decades of experience running studios and building community resources alongside a deep devotion to craft into making magical, life-changing products for independent creatives and small studios. No investors, no growth-above-all mentality — just intuitive, beautiful, powerful tools to help indie businesses thrive.

Jessica Hische

Jessica is a lettering artist, author, “designistrator”, entrepreneur, web tinkerer, and many other things. She’s run a small creative studio for nearly 20 years, working with clients like Wes Anderson, Target, Apple, Fender, and Penguin Random House. She loves sharing her knowledge — through online courses like The Dark Art of Creative Business, resources like Don’t Fear the Internet, as a prolific speaker, and in other ways big and small.
Chris Shiflett

Chris is an entrepreneur, product designer, and web developer. He has spent the last 25 years building companies and communities and helping others do the same. Along the way, he has written a few books, spoken at conferences all over the world, and brought numerous good ideas to life. He is perhaps best known in the creative community as the co-founder and host of Brooklyn Beta, a friendly web conference.
Nick Sloan

Nick is a veteran software engineer who has held leadership positions at numerous companies, including most recently head of engineering at Matter Neuroscience. Over the course of his career, he has helped build apps for companies like Apple, Samsung, Delve Fonts, and Tinybop. He’s also the co-founder of software company UpContent and the Pittsburgh Python User Group.
Sean Coates

Sean has been building web and mobile apps and infrastructure for over 20 years, working on everything from payment processing and e-commerce to archiving and neuroscience. He was the architect of Samsung’s global e-commerce infrastructure which had zero (0!) downtime during his tenure. He likes working with small teams of smart people on meaningful projects. His specialties are architecture, backend development, APIs, and infrastructure.

Are you ready to look like a pro, keep your clients organized, send the best looking invoices on the planet, save hundreds or even thousands on fees, and join a supportive community?

No charge today
One month free, then $29/mo